Category: Culture
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The News Media Role in the Culture of Fear
Table of Contents Introduction Fear How crime and violence generate unnecessary fears Conclusion Works Cited Introduction The contemporary era is characterized by new developments that keep on changing with time. The need to be updated has been satisfied by the vast news agencies available today. The broadcast of news is conveyed via channels such as…
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Culture Diversity in the Media
Media can influence how individuals relate and understand one another. Scholars are usually interested in understanding culture diversity in the media (Barker 1999). One way of comprehending cultural differences in the media is to analyze characters who share aspects of our identity (Bordwell 2013). The article below examines how a celebrity of my choice interacts…
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The Celebrity Obsessed Culture: Marketing of Colleges
Table of Contents The proposed title of the project Personal interest Potential benefits to colleges and universities Methods of gathering information Knowledge and skills for undertaking the project Previous Research on this Topic The proposed title of the project The title for this project is “marketing of colleges in a celebrity obsessed culture”. The research…
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Influence of School Culture and School Leaders
School leaders and administration have the greatest and the most significant impact on culture and curriculum structure of a school. Their beliefs and values are reflected in morals and ethical standards applied to the school environment. Schools are a key institution for shaping the cultural values of honesty, integrity, patience, fairness, nobility, and self-discipline that…
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Cultural Capital in the School Settings
Cultural capital is a terminology used in sociology to refer to non-economic assets that enhance social mobility. For instance, education, intelligence, lifestyle, dressing code, and beauty, are all forms of cultural capital. French sociologist referred to as Pierre Bourdieu coined the concept in reference to the behavior of children under the age of fifteen. Cultural…
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Equity Pedagogy in Public Schools: Multicultural Education
The article, “Education, multiculturalism, and education”, explores the challenges students face in multicultural classes. Despite a series of legal battles on the need to secularize the public and private education system in Canada, the author offers an opposing view. Seljak (2005) suggests that there is need to ackna owledge different religious beliefs in order to…
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Ending Cultural and Cognitive Relativism in Special Education
The article discusses the negative effects of postmodernism and the need to end it. In particular, the authors discuss its effects on special education. I agree with the authors’ assertion that postmodernism cannot be reconciled with science because it defines science as a social construct. Kauffman and Sasso are right to refute the assertion that…
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Learning Styles and Cultural Factors
Table of Contents Learning styles Currently there are several models trying these explain learning styles Works Cited Learning styles Basically, people have different methodologies of interacting and digesting information. It depends with the individual to know the best way he can learn and no learning style is better than other. These methodologies are called the…
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Entertainment Types in Western Culture
Any kind of entertainment has two purposes: on the sociological side, it helps in bringing people together and on the psychological side, it provides pleasure. It is true that Western culture is nurturing passive types of entertainment such as television viewing, attending a concert, or viewing a movie, all of which are passive in nature.…
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Child Psychology in a Multicultural Environment
Table of Contents Introduction Variables that help in working in a multicultural environment Multicultural training Conclusion Reference Introduction An educator always finds himself or herself in dilemma, especially where the students of his or her class comprises different ethnic groups and races. The way educators are trained to impart knowledge to students and the materials…